Earhart Blog

OUR GREAT EXPLORERS DAY!

15/2/2024

Wow, what a fun day we had being ‘Great Explorers’ First of all, can I just say a big Thank you - all of the children looked FANTASTIC and everyone made such an effort!

After our Phonics lesson, we had Maths in which we had to help 3 explorers we had learnt about solve some problems which involved looking at doubling numbers, addition on a number line and our number bonds to 10 and 20.

After break time we had our English lesson in which we had to crack a Pirate code to reveal a hidden message. We worked in pairs or threes and were given a pirate code - each letter of the alphabet had its own symbol. We were also given a large piece of paper which had lots of symbols on. We had to to use the pirate code to work out what the hidden message said. We took our time to make sure we were working it out correctly and all showed some great teamwork. After working out what the message said, we had to find the hidden treasure outside, which we found in the sand pit.

After lunch we then found out more about the Great Explorer and who our class is named after ‘Amelia Earhart’. We learnt that she was a famous pilot who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She got her pilots licence at the age of 23 and ignored many people who told her she could not be a pilot because she was a woman, determined to prove them wrong!
We also learnt that it in attempt to fly around the world, during a bad storm it was thought that she crashed her plane as she and her navigator were very sadly never found.

After all that hard work, towards the end of the day we found some time to show and talk about some of the fantastic things many of us had brought in with us.

Mrs Matthews also popped in to our class to see what we had been up to for our great explorers day and was super impressed at how fantastic we all looked. We were also able to tell her all about the activities we had been doing and what we had learnt.

What a brilliant day and I think I can safely say we all enjoyed it! Well done Earhart class

hairy maclary

1/2/2024

This afternoon in our Art lesson we watched 'Hairy Maclary from Donaldson Dairy' and then had a go at drawing Hairy Maclary. The children could choose if they wanted to draw Hairy in crayon or pencil. Most of us chose pencil so we could sketch and shade him in. We drew Hairy bit by bit and really took our time, ensuring we kept looking back at the picture on the Whiteboard. Ms Tubby could tell how hard we working and concentrating as we were all so quiet - just like real artists!

Fantastic Art work Year 1!

sense of smell and smelly pots!

23/1/2024

This afternoon in our science lesson, we were learning about our sense of smell and animals sense of smell. We learnt that animals sense of smell is a lot stronger/better than humans for a number a different reasons - the main one being so they can sniff out predators or prey.

Mrs Tubby brought in some different items for us to smell that she had put in pots and covered with foil and made some holes in the top. We each had a smell and passed them around. Some of the items smelt stronger than others- some smelt nicer than others too! We had to guess what the smells were (we did a very good job) and then we spoke about which smell was the strongest and which was the weakest.
Great science work Year 1!

SWEET, SOUR, SALTY AND BITTER!

15/1/2024

This afternoon as part of our Science topic, we recapped looking at our sense of taste and in particular types of taste. We ran our finger along our tongue to feel our taste buds and spoke about how we need these to help us taste our food. We also discussed how our taste buds can change as we get older and how our sense of smell also helps us to taste, We looked at and discussed the vocabulary sour, salty, bitter and sweet. We then tried the following foods- crisps, lemon, sour patch sweets and popcorn and had to decide which taste category we thought they belonged to. We found that some of them fit into more than one category.

Well done Year 1 - good scientific skills!

making our own Number lines

15/1/2024

This morning in our maths lesson, we were learning all about Number lines and plotting numbers onto them. Together, we plotted the numbers on a number line to 10, and then moved onto number lines to 20.

We drew a number line to 20 on the board and discussed what number would be in the middle. We agreed that it would be 10 as this half way between 0 and 20. We also spoke about how this helps us to plot other numbers and agreed that numbers smaller than 10 would come before the 10 and number that were bigger than 10 would come after.

It was then our turn to have a go at making our own giant number lines, so working in our table teams we were given a long strip of paper with 0 and 20 written on and as a team we had to write and place the numbers in the correct order. The adults were very impressed at how well we worked together to do this...and we gained lots of table points! Well done Year 1

making our playground equipment

7/12/2023

This afternoon in our D&T lesson we were 'making' the playground equipment we had designed in our previous lessons. Before we began we had a good look at our designs and thought about 'how' we could make our equipment and how we could join pieces together. We used lego and multilink cubes to create our equipment - some of the equipment we had designed proved trickier to make than others, but Mrs Tubby and Mrs Turner were super impressed at our creations and were able to guess what piece of equipment we had made.
Fantastic work this afternoon Year 1!

our geography local area walk

21/11/2023

Our Local Area Walk We set out on our walk just after 10am (and of course just as we left school it started to drizzle!). We walked down the Bridleway by the side of the school the across the back where we could just make out the very top steeple of school, seeing how far we had walked!
We then came out along Back lane and over to the Rec. We had a look at the playground equipment ready to design our own for our D&T topic and then a play!
After a little while we walked back through Paddock Close and Durilda Green where we met a lovely pony named Peaches and a horse called Shannon - who came over to the fence to say hello! We then walked back to school, returning just in time for lunch!
Once again, the children's behaviour was impeccable - earning them a marble for our jar!
Thank you to the parents who accompanied us - we hope you had a nice time!

science - celebrations

13/11/2023

This afternoon we began our new unit in Science 'Celebrations'. When we came back from our assembly, the curtains were closed, the lights were off and Mrs Tubby had placed a candle in the middle of each table. Mrs Tubby told us not to touch or get too close to the candles (we were all VERY sensible) before we spoke about the word 'Celebration' and what it meant.
We then thought about all the different celebrations we have throughout the year and how many of them we use candles or light for. We were able to think of lots of different celebrations!

A great first lesson on our new topic....and the classroom smelt lovely afterwards.
Well done for being so sensible around the candles Year 1!

Indentifying 2D shapes within 3d shapes

13/11/2023

This morning in our Maths we were identifying 2D shapes within 3D shapes. We played a game on the Interactive whiteboard in which everyday objects appeared and we had to say which 2D or 3D the object was, such as a parcel, a bike wheel, a toilet roll tube - we did very well!
We the went to our tables where we had some 3D shapes laid out. We had to draw round the faces of the 3D shapes to see what 2D shape we saw and then label the 2 shape. For example, drawing around the face(end) of a cylinder we identified a circle, drawing around a face on a cube, we found a square etc.
We all identified the 2D shapes within the 3D shapes really well! Great work Year 1!

finding the difference

2/11/2023

This morning in our maths we were finding the difference between 2 numbers. We firstly rolled a dice twice and collected that number Numicon. We then looked at which piece of Numicon was larger, placing it on the table flat, they we lined up the smaller piece of Numicon, placing it on top. We were then able to see how many more holes the larger piece of Numicon had - showing us what the difference was between the 2 numbers. We wrote this number on a post-it note and placed this underneath.